From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38886 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: specifying the charset of the query string with nnir/imap Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 14:19:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174682 24958 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:31:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:31:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 7689 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2001 12:19:56 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 23 Sep 2001 12:19:56 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f8NCJNU09115; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 14:19:23 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id OAA14873; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 14:19:18 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id C0F8320B3; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 14:19:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Daiki Ueno In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sun, 23 Sep 2001 12:05:00 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.106 Original-Lines: 22 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38886 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38886 Simon Josefsson writes: > How about using a backend interface for the interface? Then you don't > need to specify the backend to search with nnir, which I found a bit > cumbersome and inflexible. I agree that the current nnir.el interface is cumbersome. Originally, I wanted to specify the search engine via server parameters, but then people persuaded me to use simple variables, instead. However, I'm not so sure that it is a good idea to specify the searching in the backend, for the search engine is orthogonal to the backend, with the single exception of nnimap, perhaps. Which search engine to use depends just as much on the search engine that's installed as it depends on the backend in use. Thoughts? kai -- Symbol's function definition is void: signature